Newspaper Clipping: Planting Advice and Animal Sponge Baths
- Title
- Newspaper Clipping: Planting Advice and Animal Sponge Baths
- Accession Number
- 2024.16.1.4
- Accession Date
- 15 August 2025
- Accession Creator
- Meadow Knapp
- Description
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Planting Advice Using Hogs
Nightly Animal Sponge Baths - Storage Location
- Box 26, Folder #1
- Text
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Front: orchard, for where these are al-lowed to remain under the trees or nearby, insects will find ideal hiber-nating places.
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Be sure to plant some supplemen-tary feed crop with your corn. Cow peas, soy beans, and velvet beans all furnish good grazing for hogs. In the fall let the hogs do the harvesting and you will find but very little of the crop wasted. A good plan is let the hogs you are going to market gather most of the feed; then when it gets so scarce that they must cover a great deal of ground in getting [hole] ough to eat, remove them and let sows and smaller pigs finish cleaning up the field.
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To start a new pasture on cultivated
Back: II.-Sponge Bath After Work
FOR the general comfort of the work animals when they come from the field at night it is recommended that after the harness has been re-moved each animal be given a sponge bath with a solution of cool, salt wa-ter. In case there are any work galls or shoulder sores, these injuries should be treated with white lotion, which is one of the most healing and soothing preparations of its kind for use in warm weather. White lotion is composed of a mixture of 6 drams of zinc sulphate (white vitriol), 1 ounce of lead acetate (sugar of [hole] and 1 pint of water. It is efficient in curing wounds, sores, summer galls, and fistula, and should be applied three times daily for best results.
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